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My original plan for the SSD was to put the OS on it for fast load times and possibly some games. Never even crossed my mind to possibly use it for the photos. I'll have to keep that in mind, however right now I think I'm going to wait on prices for a SSD and just get a traditional HD for the...

Only plan on using Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. In regards to the ratio between gaming to photography, I would have to say 90% more gaming then photography. As of right now I play a lot of WoW, which I know isn't the heaviest resource user. However there are a few games that I've been...

I'm looking to replace a gaming laptop with a new desktop. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming and photography 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $1000, tax and shipping not included. 3) Where do you live...

I'm looking to buy a wireless headset with microphone that goes over the head for around $100 or less that I can easily buy from Amazon, Newegg, Bestbuy, etc. Also, I need to replace my desktop computer speakers since they're probably over 10 years old. I've been thinking to get either a JBL...

I've been thinking about building my own HTPC using either XMBC or Boxee, but I've been extremely curious about the Boxee Box. I want to set it up in the near future, but I've heard the Box isn't coming out until 2nd quarter 2010. Price is also a factor, and I don't want to spend more than $300...

I was also looking at the same ASUS notebook. Does anyone know of a similar quality notebook that doesn't have that ridiculous blue lighting on the cover?

This is my setup that I built this summer. Too bad my desk isn't as clean as it was then. http://img200.imageshack.us/i/p7080178.jpg/

They're selling a PCI/PCIe tuner card over at woot.com today for $20

I prefer to use Songbird to iTunes as well. The UI is pretty much the same as iTunes and I feel like it takes up less ram (though that's not a problem with me now that I have 8GB of ram :) ) And this is the working link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)

How big are those M-Audio's? I was planning to put them on my tiny desk, but I don't want it to look cluttered.

I use these GameCom . They're cheap because it's an older headset, but it works well and they don't hurt my ears like other headsets. Plus you can push the mic out of the way when you're not using them.

Hello everyone, I currently have these really old speakers that came with my Dell desktop about 10 years ago. They still work, but I think it's time to get some new ones. Does anyone have any recommendations? I've been mainly looking at Logitech ones only because I have bought so much stuff...

Well so I got some OCZ ram and it seems to be working right now, it hasn't crashed overnight like it used to, but it's only been on for 1 day. I'm going to try testing out the voltage on the Corsair and if I manage to get that to work, I'll just have 8gigs of ram :D Thanks for all the help

I have Corsair TWIN2X4096-8500C5 I was planning to RMA the RAM. In the meanwhile I'm hoping that I can get a hold of some different RAM to test it out.

I haven't changed anything on the settings, I'm just running everything on default. I actually ran memtest the other day and it errored out and by googling the results it looks like both sticks are faulty. Here's the picture of the error. http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1106/pa200218.jpg...

So, I just talked to my friend and I believe that I may have gotten incompatible parts: My motherboard is DDR2 1366+ CrossfireX My video card is SLI and my RAM is DDR2 1066. He told me to update the chipset and now I'm trying to force it to crash. If it does end up crashing again, he...

Unfortunately I don't have another video card to test out. I let Prime95 run about 10 hours and no errors when I stopped it. I ran a WD HDD test and it came out clean. But when I tried running HDTune, the computer crashed. When I tried starting it up again, it immediately crashed with error...

I built my first computer a few months ago based on all your helps :) However recently, I've been getting A LOT of BSODs, about once every day. Sometimes it occurred when I was watching something on Hulu, majority of the times it crashes when I'm not doing anything (when I go to sleep). I got...

I just got this mobo and it works great except if my computer crashes I get an error stating that DES is not turned on and to press any key to continue, except I cannot press any key at all. I googled this problem and found out to solve this problem is to reset the battery on the mobo. I don't...

Well I haven't gotten anymore BSODs.. oh well. Here are some pictures of my system: http://img22.imageshack.us/i/p7070171.jpg Looks pretty messy in there, but I tried my best in tying the cables together. http://img200.imageshack.us/i/p7070172.jpg/ My room after I was finished My...

I finally got all my parts and finished building today. Everything seems to be working fine but I've already gotten 2 BSODs. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? I'll post pictures soon too!

I've decided to go with most of the parts I already picked based on reading other threads here and talking to other people. Plus my total is approximately $1000 with the monitor and OS. Need to save some money here especially with the economy =) One last question I do have is: Does anyone...

I have a really old Dell Inspiron laptop (6 years now) that still works. My theory is that they made good quality laptops before they figured they could shove in a bunch of components into these tiny machines and offer really good deals on laptops that only last a year or two.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll look into the different builds a bit more. To save some money, is it a good idea to install Windows 7 RC1 as my main OS (and not buy Vista) and then upgrade to Windows 7 Pro when it comes out in October?

I had a previous thread about building a computer but I can't find it anymore so I'm reposting with my latest wishlist hoping to get some more advice before I take the plunge. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc This will be my main computer for...

My total preferred budget will be $1000, not including monitor, tax, shipping, rebates. Sorry for any confusion.

I was going to use Windows Vista ultimate 32bit. Monitor is in the $1000 budget, but I have some leeway. I would prefer at least the components be within the $1000.

So I want to build my own computer, but I'm new to building, so any help is appreciated. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? This will be my primary desktop computer. I'll be using it for basic word processes, movie watching, some gaming. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping...